Now in autumn, as the air gets drier and it gets colder, many people with dry and sensitive skin start to "feel" their skin again. During the summer, the skin feels soft and comfortable, but with the arrival of autumn, the skin becomes drier and some people find that their skin tightens and becomes more sensitive.
Skin sensitivity can have complex causes such as a thinner epidermis but also a change in the skin's sensitivity receptors. Several substances in skincare products can trigger sensitivity, so what skincare you choose to use and how you use it can be an important component in avoiding reactions and achieving calm, soft and moisturised skin.
Genom att behandla en torr och känslig hud rätt kan man stärka hudens viktiga barriärfunktion som håller inne fukten i huden, minska vattenförlusten (TEWL) och få den viktiga hudfloran, d v s mikrobiomet, att trivas och komma i balans. I kombination kommer detta att ge en hud som är starkare, smidigare och friskare. Här kommer Skinomes grundare, Johanna Gillbros, 4 bästa tips på hur vi bäst behandlar en torr och känslig hud.
1. Aim for a minimalist routine and avoid substances that can irritate
To take care of dry and sensitive skin, you should avoid applying many different skin care products with a variety of ingredients to your skin. Many people with sensitive skin can react to common skin care ingredients such as perfumes and preservatives. The more skin care products you use, the more of these less beneficial substances you apply to your skin. Avoid substances such as alcohol, glycols, essential oils, sometimes even natural oils, and preservatives such as phenoxyethanol, ethylhexylglycerin, benzoic acid and potassium sorbate.
Maybe you need to review your skincare routine - and make it shorter? Healthy skin doesn't need lots of different creams, serums and cleansers. On the contrary, using too many skincare products can induce skin sensitivity and long skincare routines can simply have the opposite effect on your skin - they can irritate rather than nourish.
So go through your skincare routine and think about which products you really need and which ingredients you should avoid in your skincare products.
The Skinome routine is simple and for those with dry and sensitive skin we recommend the following:
- Apply your choice of moisturiser (Rich Intense, Rich Emulsion or Light Emulsion) in the morning.
- Feel free to cleanse your face, but only in the evening, with one of our cleansers (Mineral Cleanser or Sensitive Cleanser).
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You can then combine and blend your moisturiser with our Probiotic Concentrate, which is specifically formulated to nourish and protect dry and sensitive skin, either in the morning or evening or both.
2. Cleanse your skin - but only in the evening!
The basic idea behind cleansing the skin is that it has accumulated particles from urban air, dirt, grease and other unhealthy substances, which need to be removed from skin. This is important but today many people over-clean their skin and scientific studies show that there is a link between over-cleansing and some of the most common skin problems such as dry and sensitive skin or even rosacea.
During the night, the skin produces unique moisture-binding substances that form part of the skin barrier and contribute to soft, healthy skin. Surfactants found in many cleansing products tend to have a negative impact on the skin barrier as they can also dissolve the skin endogenous oils that form in the skin. Therefore, an important tip to avoid dry and sensitive skin is to only cleanse in the evening.
Skinome has two cleansers, Mineral Cleanser and Sensitive Cleanser, both of which cleanse gently but effectively and moisturise. They contain very mild surfactants, skin endogenous oils and also pre- and post-biotics.
3. Soften and moisturize with skin-mimicking ingredients
So-called skin-mimicking ingredients are substances that are naturally present in the skin and that the skin is therefore used to. These ingredients work with the skin and support its natural function. After all, the skin has evolved over more than 300,000 years and is a super-competent system that we should disturb as little as possible. skin-mimicking moisturizers and emollients are undoubtedly the most important ingredients for dry and sensitive skin.
Emollients: skin-mimicking emollients include ceramides, squalane, lecithin and cholesterol. These are all found in the skin's own beneficial mix of oils and water which, together with moisture-binding substances, are so important for healthy and strong skin.
Moisturisers: to help the skin retain moisture, we can help by adding ingredients that bind water to the skin. Glycerin, urea and PCA are also found naturally in the skin, binding water in the top layer and moisturising the skin.
When developing Skinome's products, we put great emphasis on using skin-mimicking ingredients such as the emollient and moisturizing substances recommended above, which are suitable for dry and sensitive skin. In our new Rich Intense moisturizer, which is developed to nourish and build up sensitive and even dry to very dry skin, we also use the sugar erythritol, which together with urea and PCA increases the skin's moisture content.
4. Feed your good bacteria
All the trillions of microorganisms that live on our skin and make up the skin microbiome help, among other things, to moisturise the skin and have an anti-inflammatory function. We know that a high diversity of bacteria is good for the skin and there are ways to increase diversity that also contribute to a balanced microbiome, which is essential for healthy and strong skin.
An imbalance in the microbiome has been linked to skin diseases such as acne, psoriasis, eczema and rosacea, but also to sensitive skin. The microbiome can become imbalanced through the use of skin care products containing ingredients that can interfere, such as preservatives.
To correct the balance and enrich the microbiome, pre-pro or postbiotics can be used. In simple terms, prebiotics are fibres that act as food for our good bacteria, probiotics are good, living bacteria and postbiotics are substances produced by the good bacteria. By using skincare products that contain biotics, you can eventually build up your skin, increase the diversity of good bacteria and make it less sensitive.
Many of Skinome's products contain either pre- or postbiotics. Recently, Probiotic Concentrate was also launched, containing live lactic acid bacteria of the Lactobacillus reuteri variety. This product has been developed to suit dry and sensitive skin.
Lactobacillus reuteri is the most well-studied probiotic bacterium in the world, with 224 clinical studies and over 200 patents to its name. Each bottle contains over 100 billion bacteria and has been shown in clinical studies we have done to increase the diversity of good bacteria on the skin and have a very positive effect on skin health.
